Good evening. Suella Braverman has warned uncontrolled and illegal migration poses an “existential challenge” to the West.
Elsewhere, Labour is planning to impose VAT on private schools in its first year in power if it wins the next election.
Suella Braverman has warned uncontrolled and illegal migration poses an “existential challenge” to the West. Delivering a speech in Washington DC, the Home Secretary said there was an “optimal level of immigration” that could be achieved but over the last 25 years the influx to Europe and the UK had been “too much” and “too quick”.
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Labour would immediately strip independent schools of their charitable status, scrapping their 20 per cent VAT exemption and business rates relief. The party claims the change would raise £1.7 billion, with “every penny” of new tax takings funnelled into state education. But senior sources in the private sector have said they will be pushing for a full consultation on the proposals, as they believe the situation is more complicated than Labour realises or is willing to admit.
A suspected spy ring is accused of plotting to abduct Russian targets while operating in the UK for two and a half years, a court heard. Five Bulgarians, three men and two women, are charged with conspiring to collect information that would be useful to an enemy between August 2020 and February this year. The Crown Prosecution Service have accused the five defendants of UK-based espionage and of collecting information to help with abduction plots.
British Museum | A webpage has been launched by the museum categorising the types of items that are believed to have been stolen from its collection. It comes after around 2,000 objects worth millions of pounds went missing, with a single thief thought to be responsible.
A diver wearing a snorkel and T-shirt cut through a Chinese territorial barrier with a knife in a growing confrontation over disputed islands. The 300-metre-long rope linking a cordon of buoys had been placed by the Chinese coastguard around the Scarborough Shoal, a small but strategic reef 130 miles west of the Philippine island of Luzon.
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